NAMbLA The Good news About Man/Boy Love

A newly published analysis of 59 different studies of youth sexuality has
just appeared in the prestigious Psychological Bulletin. Using a powerful
technique called "meta-analysis", the analysis shows that the current
war on boylovers has no basis in science,

The scientists find that:

- Basis beliefs in the general population about the sexual experiences of
children and adolescents with adults (such as the belief that they typically
cause intense harm) are not supported by the evidence.

- Most youthful sexual experiences with older partners do not involve force
or threats.

- Family environment factors are 9 times as important as sexual experience
for predicting bad outcomes. Studies from the "sex abuse industry"
consistently fail to recognize bad family environments as the main source of
abuse and harmful experiences.

- There is no association between boys' sexual experience and emotional
problems unless the experience is unwanted. The correlation between girls'
sexual experiences which can be classified as "abuse" and poor
emotional "adjustment" is very small and cannot be assumed to be due
to any cause-effect relationship.

- On average, nearly 70% of males in the studies reported that as children or
adolescents their sexual experiences with adults had been positive or neutral.

- Click here for more information about this and other studies [This link
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